Metal sculptures will be put on display throughout downtown Springfield this month in the latest effort to use public art to attract more people to the city’s downtown. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill reports.

The sculptures are the work of Hilltowns artist James Kitchen, who takes discarded metal, such as wheel rims, machine gears, farm implements, tools and other scrap metal and turns it into art, which he describes as thoughtful and whimsical.